Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Dad kills son over school fees

I read this story in The National this morning with tears in my eyes. It is a sad, but true story of the difficulties many families in Papua New Guinea have with paying school fees, whilst the government continues to turn a blind eye. When will this country ever learn that education and health are the two most-important things if it wants to develop? The young man didn’t deserve to die like this.

1 comment:

This is indeed a sad story. Education is very important for all young PNGans.

Here in China, we the students are contributing money for a young final year student at DWU to complete his study. He sent an email to all PNG students here that really touched us. We don't know him, never met him but his email moved us. We contributed up to K1,000. and will send to him this week. We believe that his achievement is for PNG because we want to work with like-minded people when we run this country of ours.

See Malum, I am sure many PNGans are willing to give, but they are holding back their blessings. Parents are suffering to pay their children's fee. The very children will eventually become part of PNG's development. Thus, the government should help in any way possible. If they can't provide free -education, which I discourage sometimes, then they must create employment for people, open up markets, encourage agriculture, fix roads, and let the people make their own money to support in school fees.

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